Macy's City Bites series kicks off with Liam Mayclam of Eye on the Bay playing host to Top Chef alum/Mission Beach Cafe executive chef Ryan Scott and pastry chef William Werner of food design group polite/persuasion in an exploration of honey. The event takes place on Wednesday, September 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Macy's in Union Square. Admission is $10 and includes a taste of the appetizer, entrée, dessert and drink. Proceeds to benefit the S.F. chapter of Meals on Wheels; more info on this and upcoming City Bites installments here. —Tamara Palmer
Heirloom tomato season may be waning in a year that's been a bit bad to the fruit. But there's room for at least one last big hurrah as Amy Goldman, author of the new art/recipes book The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table (and someone who has personally grown more than 200 varieties), gives her tips for cultivating and serving those delicious oddities. Wednesday, September 10 at noon at the Commonwealth Club. Admission is $15 ($8 for members). —Tamara Palmer
The 13th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival
Taste-Test Pavilions; Beach Street
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Notes and Photos by Janine Kahn
Better than: Being neck-and-neck with hippies watching Ziggy Marley at Golden Gate Park.
Saturday afternoon was blistering but beautiful as we hopped on the 47 and made our way to Ghirardelli Square for this year's much-publicized chocolate festival. Most of the action was taking place on Beach Street, so we wandered down to will call and picked up a pair of tasting cards ($10 entitled you to 6 tastings, and $20 got you 15 - we snapped up the former and had a grand 12 tastings between us).
O'Neill's Irish Pub won the first mark on my card with a smooth cup of Irish Coffee, and the nice ladies from Guinness handed us freebie bottle openers (which would become handy come Sunday). The second mark went to dark chocolate almond Laceys from Desserts On Us, which melted marvelously on our lips and all over your humble reporter's hands, making it tricky to take notes during the Earthquake Ice Cream Eating Contest, which you can read about here. Photos of the aforementioned treats and the rest of our tastings of choice under the fold...
